Post-Election Panel on Legal Protections and Rights of Immigrants

MOIA Commissioner Nisha Agarwal speaking at the CCEM’s panel on legal protections and rights of immigrants on November 21. (Photo by Julius Motal for CCEM)

On November 21, the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism organized a post-election panel on legal protections and rights of immigrants.

The Center’s co-director, Karen Pennar, moderated the panel, which included Nisha Agarwal, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; Camille J. Mackler, director of Legal Initiatives at the New York Immigration Coalition; Alina Das, co-director at the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the New York University School of Law; Alizabeth Newman, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at the CUNY School of Law; and Jojo Annobil, executive director at the Immigrant Justice Corps. A large number of journalists from different ethnic and community media outlets attended the event and got a chance to ask questions important to their respective audiences.